Chapter 84 84 Falling
Tu Lanxun shrank back, and then he realized the source of the sound wasn't in front of the garbage compartment door. The footsteps were getting closer and closer. "Click, click, click..."
She jumped down nimbly, landing silently on the ground. The garbage door closed quietly behind her. Tu Lanxun bent down to pick up the silver pendant on the ground, sat down, and took the vacuum cleaner handle and head in her hands.
"Hey, you're the new cleaning lady hired today, right?" The visitor was a woman in her thirties, wearing an ordinary top and long skirt. "I haven't seen you before."
Tu Lanxun feigned guilt for damaging company property and clumsily restored the vacuum cleaner to its original state. He then sized the man up and asked, "Who are you?"
The other person smiled and winked at Tu Lanxun. "I won't tell anyone. These things break easily. Just fix them yourself."
It was as if they already had a little secret between them.
Tu Lanxun stood up, pushed the cleaning cart, and prepared to finish the remaining work.
Her hands trembled slightly, but her movements became more normal, and her heart felt heavy.
The woman in her thirties in front of me is a ghost.
And it was a ghost trapped in its own body, just an empty shell of a long-dead person. Her movements were slightly stiff, but hardly noticeable.
Maybe because he had been with N and the ghosts for a long time or something, Tu Lanxun could recognize the other person's identity at a glance.
Ghosts, the ghosts that can move freely in the main building of Junxi Manor at night are either big guys who can ignore their soul wave detection devices, or ghosts inside Junxi Manor.
Tu Lanxun tends to believe the latter.
"Your name is Li Xiaoyue?" The ghost girl was still trying to get closer, thinking she hadn't been recognized. "My name is Zong Li. I'm on vacation today and I also work at the manor. We'll be colleagues from now on."
Tu Lanxun swept the last piece of ceiling with two "hmm" sounds. It was 1:35 in the morning, and he had completed the task 25 minutes ahead of schedule.
She said into the headset, "Minister Zhong, I'm done. Can I come back now?"
Zhong Tie remained silent and did not answer.
Zong Li has been chattering non-stop. She can bring a sense of security to every new rookie. Everyone will value the first friend they can make in a new environment, but Tu Lanxun is not one of them.
She was not feeling well and felt dizzy. The intense action just now had exhausted all her energy. Everything she did was done by her body and her brain followed, relying entirely on instinct.
Tu Lanxun was busy packing up the cleaning cart and was about to push it back. When she turned around, she saw Zong Li standing by the corridor window. She had opened the window and was looking down.
Zong Li's expression was a little serious: "What is this?"
Tu Lanxun was slightly startled and walked over. Zong Li half-leaned out of the window and pointed at a spot. "This place is not clean at all. How do you do your job? If they find out, you're done."
Liu Maosheng whispered to stop her in her ear, but Tu Lanxun still took a step forward. She glanced at it casually and said, "It's quite clean. You must have seen it wrong."
Zong Li insisted: "Take a look for yourself, how could I lie to you?"
Tu Lanxun took another half step, and just as she leaned slightly toward the window, she suddenly felt a force coming from behind. Zong Li was pushing her toward the window!
"What are you doing!" She was prepared and shouted, holding on to the windowsill with her fingers, not moving an inch.
Zong Li's strength was immense, and his voice was still full of laughter: "Look, don't worry, I'm holding you, you can't fall, clean up quickly!"
If it was truly a newbie with little experience, someone used to obedience tests, perhaps they wouldn't dare disobey Zong Li. But Tu Lanxun wasn't the type of person the other party expected to be bullied. He sat back and said, "Zong Li, why are your hands so cold?"
Zong Li's hand retracted, and he grabbed Tu Lanxun by the back of his collar, then jumped up and sat on the windowsill. Tu Lanxun was already dizzy, and when he turned around, he heard a long scream from behind.
“Ah ...
“Pah.”
Zong Li disappeared from behind her. She was thrown out of the window by the force of Tu Lanxun and fell from the sixth floor.
Tu Lanxun slumped against the night window. Outside, the air was chilling, the sky and the ground were pitch black, and Zong Li's shadow was no longer visible. But the streetlights at the foot of the building illuminated a small patch of ground, where a twisted human figure lay. The outline gradually expanded, and blood was flowing out.
A feeling of suffocation lingered in Tu Lanxun's throat. She took several rapid breaths, and the feeling of shock could not be shaken off for a long time.
A small part of them were simply shocked: they actually set up such an outrageous plan.
The other half was fear. Tu Lanxun's physiological panic reaction, including the fear and nausea after witnessing Zong Li falling from the building, echoed her previous dizziness.
Tu Lanxun must have been poisoned before. In any case, his body was disturbed. Only in this situation would it be easier for him to believe the fact that "he had killed someone" and it would be easier for him to lose his mind.
If she hadn't known in advance that Zong Li was not a living person, she would have been frightened to her knees and begging for mercy.
As expected, the sound of the elevator door opening echoed, and almost simultaneously with the security guards' whispers downstairs, someone arrived in the sixth-floor corridor. It was Zhong Tie, and she walked towards Tu Lanxun with a grim expression.
"Li Xiaoyue, what happened? Someone fell from the sixth floor?" Zhong Tie asked.
Tu Lanxun pretended to be scared and nodded, "Yes, she said her name is Zong Li."
Zhong Tie frowned and said a few words into the headset, then said seriously, "What's the process? Tell me quickly!"
Tu Lanxun's voice trembled: "I, I don't know. Zong Li opened the window and looked out. It seemed like there was something dirty, and then she fell down."
Lying and self-preservation are the first instincts of normal people.
If Li Xiaoyue, a newcomer, were to be selfless and take responsibility for everything, not only would it be difficult for her to gain people's trust, but the show would also be unable to continue.
Zhong Tie heard what was reported downstairs through the headset and raised his eyebrows. "You're lying! The surveillance video clearly showed it. You pushed her down!"
Tu Lanxun was crying as she spoke, "No, it's really not true. She tried to push me, and she fell when I struggled."
Zhong Tie's expression calmed down, and he put the final nail in his uneasy heart. "Didn't you push it in? You killed someone."
She pointed to her headphones, indicating that Zong Li had been confirmed to be dead. As if afraid that Tu Lanxun would not believe it, Zhong Tie lifted Tu Lanxun's collar and dragged him into the elevator, going down to the first floor. When he got out of the door, Zong Li was surrounded by several security guards. Someone was making a phone call, and the body on the ground was already dead.
Tu Lanxun's legs went limp and he sat on the ground, his face buried in his hands and his shoulders heaving.
She couldn't let them see her true expression, which was full of speechlessness, because Zong Li's soul was standing nearby, watching all this with a smug look on his face.
A bunch of psychopaths.
But it is likely that those cleaners who were willing to remain silent and renounce their personal freedom, such as Shi Guiying, had all experienced this kind of intimidation. The huge economic benefits were another factor.
Junxi Manor's methods are quite clever. Within just 12 hours of the new employees joining the company, they have gathered the three key elements to retain people's hearts:
Clean background and high compliance.
Fatal handle and absolute protection.
High monetary rewards for loyalty.
After these three tricks were filmed, it is estimated that most people were tied on board and loyal to the film. If they were involved in the murders of the Kingdom of Heaven Group afterwards, they would just turn a blind eye and their situation would deteriorate.
Tu Lanxun sat on the ground and cried for a while. Zhong Tie felt that she had cried enough, so he helped her up and said, "Xiaoyue, Xiaoyue, wake up."
"Wow, wow, wow... What should I do, Minister Zhong... I'm so young..." Tu Lanxun burst into tears.
A gentle but strong arm supported Tu Lanxun from behind. Zhong Tie waved his hand to disperse the security guards, saying, "Keep this confidential. We'll talk about it tomorrow."
Tu Lanxun was taken back to the cleaning department's lounge by Zhong Tie, and three well-dressed and elite-looking people came in.
Zhong Tie persuaded gently: "Xiaoyue, can you hear me? It's okay, you're okay."
Tu Lanxun raised his head with an expression of disbelief.
Zhong Tie said, "That Zong Li, she's not an employee here. She's just a poor relative of a staff member. She's unmarried and has no children. Her family members are all dead. No one outside would look for her, and no one knows she's here."
Tu Lanxun whispered: "Really..."
Zhong Tie smiled, "Really? So don't worry, no one will come to arrest you. As long as the manor keeps it a secret, won't we have the surveillance footage in our hands?"
Tu Lanxun's eyes lit up with tears, and Zhong Tie smiled even more contentedly, "So what should you do?"
"what to do……"
Zhong Tie patted Tu Lanxun's shoulder and said seriously, "For Manager Zhao's sake, the manor helped you hide this matter. Although it was for the sake of social reputation, we are also at risk. So you should stay here and work hard, abide by the confidentiality regulations, so that both parties can rest assured."
She smiled, a little threateningly, "We're a family, you won't be short of money, and you'd better not worry about contacting the outside world. If anything goes wrong, we won't be able to protect you."
Tu Lanxun nodded confusedly, symbolically taking on the huge debt. Zhong Tie successfully won people's hearts, comforted Tu Lanxun a few words, and then turned to talk to the other three people who looked like leaders.
Discuss Zong Li's funeral arrangements in front of Tu Lanxun.
The first person said, "Zong Ruixiang is easy to talk to. He's one of us. How could he turn against us just for a distant relative who's eating and drinking for free?"
The second person said, "Zong Li's body is still there. The security guards won't say anything, but who will clean it up?"
Tu Lanxun's heart skipped a beat.
Zhong Tie interrupted, "So much has happened tonight, everyone should go back and rest. I'll talk to Zong Ruixiang tomorrow."
The second person was still emphasizing: "What about the body? Who will touch it? I am scared just looking at it."
The third person suddenly laughed and looked at Tu Lanxun: "Of course we should pretend we didn't see anything. Whoever did it should clean up the mess. Do we have to play accomplices?"
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